Secret Service Official To Head Navy Probe Unit

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Roy Nedrow, director of Secret Service investigations, has been chosen director of the embattled Navy Criminal Investigative Service, the Navy said Thursday.

Nedrow, 50, has been with the Secret Service for 22 years. Before joining the Secret Service, he was a police officer in Berkeley, Calif.

Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe reorganized the service Sept. 24 and began looking for a new director because of controversy over some of its investigations, particularly the one involving the Tailhook sex harassment scandal.

Navy investigators said they were unable to identify more than a few of the Navy pilots accused of molesting women in a Las Vegas hotel hallway at the Tailhook convention last year because the fliers and their officers refused to cooperate.